Dr. Laurie Starkey, Ph.D.

Dr. Laurie Starkey is the author of Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis (Wiley) and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA. She has been teaching Organic Chemistry at the university level for over 20 years and most recently won the 2013 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cal Poly Pomona's highest teaching award.

Dr. Laurie Starkey brings her expertise in Organic Chemistry to help students learn important laboratory theory and techniques. She covers everything from melting point, distillation, and extraction, to more advanced concepts in chromatography and spectroscopy. Each lesson contains all the necessary steps to correctly assemble the apparatus and complete the experiment, followed by a comprehensive pre-lab discussion of theory, procedures, and calculations. This course is crucial for students who wish to excel in Organic Chemistry Laboratory in order to satisfy their degree or pre-medical requirements. Dr. Laurie Starkey is the author of “Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis” (Wiley) and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA. She has been teaching Organic Chemistry at the university level for over 20 years and most recently won the 2013 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cal Poly Pomona's highest teaching award.

professor, your videos are great,but at the 1:20 :39 mark it keeps looping. this has occurred with some of the other videos as well

By Anthony Villarama•January 9, 2019

My golly. For many years, I have not understand completely the entire topic of Stereochemisty, but today in two hours, I understood everything. You are so good that I really want to marry someone like you someday. hahahaha

By Mohammad Abdel-halim•July 24, 2018

Hello Professor,
Example 4 at min 66, will the product coming from the allylic carbocation which has the charge on the 2ry carbon the major one?